This news came as a wonderful surprise to TWD fans when it was first announced, but it also fulfilled something of a dream of Lincoln’s, we’ve now been told. Chandler Riggs – who played Rick’s son Carl on the show until the character was killed off in season 7 – revealed while attending San Jose Fan Fest that he and Lincoln often spoke about how cool it would be to do a Walking Dead movie.

“He’s been wanting to do movies for years. He was saying since Season Three or Four, he was like, ‘Dude, we should do a movie, it would be so cool to do a full-on movie in theaters.’ I was like, ‘That would be so sick, I’m super down,’ and it really became a thing. But for it to finally be announced and actually be confirmed, it’s super, super sick.”

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The last time we saw Rick, he narrowly escaped death when he was found gravely injured by Anne/Jadis and flown away from his home in a helicopter, as part of Anne’s mysterious human trafficking system. We don’t know where he went next, but we do know that he never returned to Alexandria over the next six years, as the series has jumped forward in time to that point since Rick was written out.